ataboy! thank you!

 

^This. Like I said before, the "war stories" doesn't encourage racing. it simply organizes the site. People are just going to post it somewhere else...plain and simple. Unless you start banning people for posting street racing videos and stories...which would just be insane...

 

public roads are not safe controlled environments.

Do they have tire walls?
Do they have run off areas?
Do they have medical equipment on hand?
Do they have flaggers to tell you something's wrong up ahead and you need to stop?

These are the things that define a safe controlled enviromnent for racing.

Have you ever done any real racing? Or are you kicked out of all the tracks like Dominic Toretto?

 

Sometimes you gotta beat people with a torque wrench lol...

 

i have run at the track before the track down here sucks, they don't prep for ****, an cost way to much to be worth it for the amount of runs you can squeeze in.

an just to make you feel special yes (cement barriers), yes (long road, wide shoulders, flat ground on both sides that are completely open), 3 of the people out there everytime are EMT's with the bags, an what do you need a flagger for when you can see down the road as its lit up?? plus road is flat an straight which does tend to aid that as well

 

Race tracks have insurance to cover people who are injured/wrecked. You won't get your car impounded and you won't go to prison for racing on a legitimate track.

None of the above on the streets. None of what Dirty said on the streets.

This has officially turned into a stupid thread of who can prove if street racing is safe/legit or dangerous/illegal, where the answer is pretty much obvious.


/thread

 

I flatout dont believe you.

1. you are a random internet forum person
2. you street race, which alone omits all credibility.

 

I wonder if he's ever wrecked into a cement barrier at 100mph, as opposed to a tire barrier

 

its as safe as you make it....you can go either way an its all personal belief an choice. you believe what you believe simple as that. That is all this thread will be a clashing of two different opinions. All im trying to state is that no its not 100% safe but nothing is

 

Yeah I'm done with this conversation.

Too many inexperienced people on this forum with over-inflated confidence.

go ahead and quote me, reply to wat I've said. I'm no longer listening. I've said what I've needed to say and made the points I need to make.

 

How long have you been driving? lol. You realize not everyone on here is 17 right??

 

I voted to keep it, I like the entertainment value, even though I've never made a thread in that section.

 

/\/\ there we go.

 

Why the hell have a 530awhp car to use it once every few weeks?

 

The war stories thread doesn't generate anything of real value.. Steets are not tracks, condition are different. I wouldn't say a street race is comparable to a race (on a proper) track. You don't get much out of seeing that someone in a cobalt beat xyz car. Tracks are consistent (bad or good) while streets are not. / my opinion ends here

This forum is very touchy. Your talking about other peoples cars or your own. People are defensive, they also get offensive, there isn't a right and wrong most of the time.

Remember political threads? What did they bring to the forum...nothing productive. R E A D the threads in the forum. Are they comical in a raunchy way? Yup. Do they reflect poorly on this entire site? Yup. This section is an important ingredient to creating problems..

If you have never been in a position where your running a forum (or attempting to run it well) I can see how its not easy to distinguish why this is an anchor. Don't click on it if you don't like it does NOT apply in this particular case. Every forum we have is a showcase to the world. Right now our war stories forum is a showcase showing that its ok for me to tell you to ****off because I think your opinion/post/question sucks. Its showing prospective members, current members and prospective vendors / vendors that its ok for members to treat each other with no respect. It only takes a few examples of THIS to ruin the countless other forums we have that show members respecting each other.



This is just one step towards fixing a broken car(cobaltss.net). I pray that the rest of the much needed fixes are not met with this kind of resistance.


And if you want examples ofwhats NOT going to help grow the stie, keep reading:

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5293463-post11.html
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5293465-post12.html
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5293469-post14.html

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5291162-post2.html
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5291168-post5.html
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5291233-post11.html

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5291754-post25.html

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/5289994-post15.html

I can go on and on and on but I hope the point is sinking in. Will this completely fix the problems I talked about? No...no...but its a start.

 

This is america if we cant talk about street racing on our car forum what the **** is the point? Removing the war stories section is just un american plain and simple, street racing is what started the muscle car craze. How is there not more dedication to street racing is the question you should be asking yourself.

 

I give this thread like MAYBE 2 more pages before it gets locked...

 

LOL! Prolly true.

 

/thread

 

this may just be me but i hate the war stories section. yes i kno ppl will say "just dont go in it" but its so damn pointless imo. to me, if i dont see a vid it didnt happen.

 

While this is a pretty good post, every example you gave and the issue you are harping on does not JUST go on in the war stories section. It is all over this forum. So if this is what you are trying to eliminate, it will not go away with the deletion of one section.

 

The reality of this entire matter is that the average cobalt owner is going to be between 16-21. Your going to get dumb bullshit, regardless of a forum sections title and rules. Until you can physically change the maturity level of the average site member this is all quite pointless.

 

Unfortunately this will never happen, and is one of the main reasons I post less & less on this site.

 

And this is what makes me mad about the world we live in, everyone wants to bitch about things that really dont effect them one bit. Just to ruin it for everyone else.

 

EXACTLY! Small steps to a hopefully larger plan. I am a believer that if you give a serial killer less chances to kill people, he will end up killing less people

Why should we stray away from trying to make this place better because we'll never win 100% or because its hard?

Edit: what if anything that's in there is of use to us?